LINGUIST List 17.2834

Sat Sep 30 2006

Books: Applied Linguistics/Discourse Analysis: Szmrecsanyi

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Directory         1.    Julia Ulrich, Morphosyntactic Persistence in Spoken English: Szmrecsanyi
Message 1: Morphosyntactic Persistence in Spoken English: Szmrecsanyi
Date: 22-Sep-2006
From: Julia Ulrich <julia.ulrichdegruyter.com>
Subject: Morphosyntactic Persistence in Spoken English: Szmrecsanyi


Title: Morphosyntactic Persistence in Spoken English Subtitle: A Corpus Study at the Intersection of Variationist Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, and Discourse Analysis Series Title: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 177 Published: 2006 Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
                http://www.mouton-publishers.com

Book URL: http://www.degruyter.de/rs/bookSingle.cfm?isbn=3-11-019012-5&fg=SK&L=E

Author: Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg Hardback: ISBN: 3110190125 Pages: 248 Price: Europe EURO 88.00
Hardback: ISBN: 3110190125 Pages: 248 Price: U.S. $ 118.80
Abstract:

Language users are creatures of habit with a tendency to re-usemorphosyntactic material that they have produced or heard before. In otherwords, linguistic patterns and tokens, once used, persist in discourse. Thepresent book is the first large-scale corpus analysis to explore thedeterminants of this persistence, drawing on regression analyses of avariety of functional, discourse-functional, cognitive, psycholinguistic,and external factors. The case studies investigated include the alternationbetween synthetic and analytic comparatives, between the s-genitive and theof-genitive, between gerundial and infinitival complemention, particleplacement, and future marker choice in a number of corpora samplingdifferent spoken registers and geographical varieties of English.

Providing a probabilistic framework for examining the ways in whichpersistence - among several other internal and external factors -influences speakers' linguistic choices, the book departs from mostwritings in the field in that it seeks to bridge several researchtraditions. While it is concerned, in a classically variationist spirit,with internal and external determinants of grammatical variation inEnglish, it also draws heavily on ideas and evidence developed bypsycholinguists and discourse analysts. In seeking to construct acomprehensive model of how speakers make linguistic choices, the studyultimately contributes to a theory of how spoken language works.

The book is of interest to graduate students and researchers invariationist sociolinguistics, probabilistic linguistics,psycholinguistics, and computational linguistics.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics                             Discourse Analysis
Written In: English (eng )

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